Month: November 2001

Djof has succumbed to Bungie fever, and created a nice desktop using the Bungie motto (and some nice compositing). Check it out in our Wallpaper section.

Battle of the Photoshoppers… Matt Baker and Strykerwolf have both created images purporting to show an Xbox being played in a living room, a week before launch. Both images have been added to the Miscellaneous Art section.

The Juan Ramirez Covenant statue (to be given away to celebrate the re-opening of the Bungie Store – early pictures of the statue can still be seen there) is coming along very nicely, as shown on the Bungie Webcam today. Here are a couple of views of it (thanks to Adam Daniel for the earlier…

Matt Soell has posted an important note about the Launch Party – apparently, the page on Xbox.com rocketed the number of RSVPs to way over what the Bungie folk can handle. They’ll be contacting everyone who responded to let ’em know whether they’re in or not – check for details in his post. (Please -…

CG Online managed to corner Jason Jones for a brief question and answer session – after a definitive ‘YES’ to the obligatory ‘Is Halo REALLY coming to the PC?’ question, he got to the good stuff: Is Halo a better game for having been made into a showcase title for the Xbox? What have you…

A kind soul over at the TeamXbox forums has uploaded .avi versions of the gameplay commercials (including the Halo commercial). Unfortunately, these require the DivX codec – and even though I have it installed (on both a Mac and a PC), I can’t get these to work. Others, have, though… so it’s worth a shot!

For those who haven’t visited yet… the 7th Column site shows an almost Marathon-like glyph, a counter (it’s down to 6, from yesterday’s 7), and (hidden in text the same color as the background) “NON FACETE NOBIS CALCITRARE VESTRVM PERINÆVM” (which, loosely translated, means “Don’t Make Us Kick Your Ass”). Coming Soonâ„¢…

TeamXbox noted that there seems to be a Munch’s Odyssey demo on the Halo DVD… decent marketing ploy, no? Thanks to Paul Roberts for the first heads-up.

No7orious noticed that the Halo Launch Party has made it into the news at Xbox.com. Remember – this is a site that saw 580,000 unique visitors last week… so if you’re planning on going, and haven’t yet sent your RSVP to halofest@microsoft.com… well, there are only 250 spots…

Because the subject (rumors that PC Halo is dead are BULL) is so important to so many readers, and because we posted this late in the day yesterday, we’re going to direct your attention to this news post – Matt Soell, once again, stomps on the rumormongers. Read it. Show it to your friends. Beat…

Solid Halo preview from PlanetXbox – they got the date wrong, but otherwise it’s a nice summary of the game. Thanks to Charles Clifford for the heads-up. Update: Oops, careless – this is the same article that was posted at PlanetXbox’s host, Gamespy, a week ago. My bad. Djof gets the first-noticed kudos.

Many thanks to Kbjlake, who has kindly mirrored the manual scans that have had such a difficult time finding a home. You can grab them individually, or get the whole shebang, zipped (3.6 MB). (And thanks again to Final Solution, who scanned them all in the first place!)

Five gorgeous hi-res screens at VoodooExtreme – go get ’em. First notification props to jan luow. (Who loves ya, baby?)

Okay, for most regulars here, this is a broken record. However, with the proximity of the Xbox launch, there are many newcomers… and this issue has become hot recently. A few days ago, Matt Soell, in response to a forum post in which an Xbox Germany representative was quoted as saying that PC Halo would…

The Gameplay page of the HBO FAQ has been updated. Old info has been pulled, new info added… one more question (coop splitscreen play) is there. This is a work in progress… more to come. Update: The Weapons and Vehicles pages have been updated, as well, this time using information from the Halo Manual.

Final Solution writes again – the Halo manual pics he put up yesterday (down on his original site, for bandwidth overflows – he can’t even log in to remove them) have been re-upped – to a Geocities site. Dunno how long THAT one’s gonna last… but if you haven’t gotten ’em yet (and want ’em),…

genohunter writes to let us know that a second Halo french preview has come out, at GameKult.com.For those whose french is as clear as the covenant language, I’ll just say that the Gamekult team found the game quite exciting, and, of course, really wonderful (especially all the bumpmapping effectsÊ·ith dynamic lights). They tested it on…

jeremedia notes that his recently-purchased retail copy of Halo is missing the training sequence seen in the O’Donnell/Staten commentary film and GameSpot’s Xbox movie 2. (He mentioned this before, a few days ago… but then he was playing at Xbox Unleashed, and it wasn’t clear if there had been some way to bypass it that…

Overnight forum doings… the Xbox manual scans we mentioned last night got crushed from the demand – Final Solution’s monthly bandwidth allotment has been used up… so Funky J has kindly put them up on his hotline server. Psyrixx has created a new Mastercard ‘Priceless’ parody – you can find it at The Psyjnir Complex.…

Hmm… Matt Soell drops hints about new media to be released at the Halo Launch Party…